{"id":4058,"date":"2014-12-03T00:16:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T16:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rmohan.com\/?p=4058"},"modified":"2014-12-03T00:16:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T16:16:37","slug":"how-to-change-username-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/?p=4058","title":{"rendered":"How to Change Username in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to Change Username in\u00a0Linux<\/p>\n<div class=\"date\">\n<div class=\"bg\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>-l, \u2013login NEW_LOGIN<br \/>\nThe name of the user will be changed from LOGIN to NEW_LOGIN. Nothing else is changed. In particular, the user\u00b4s home directory name<br \/>\nshould probably be changed manually to reflect the new login name.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Change existing username account from alice to tom:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>usermod -l &lt;new_login&gt; &lt;old_login&gt;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>[root@linux1]$ usermod -l alice tom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>[root@linux1]$<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Change Username in Linux<\/p>\n<p>-l, \u2013login NEW_LOGIN The name of the user will be changed from LOGIN to NEW_LOGIN. Nothing else is changed. In particular, the user\u00b4s home directory name should probably be changed manually to reflect the new login name.<\/p>\n<p>Example:<\/p>\n<p>Change existing username account from alice to tom:<\/p>\n<p>usermod -l &lt;new_login&gt; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4059,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions\/4059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}